Aerial color snapshot taken of Harold and Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy's homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. The photograph was taken circa 1980 by an unidentified photographer and depicts wood frame buildings,...

Aerial view looking southeast over Kachemak Bay during airplane flight, preparing to land in Homer, Alaska on Kenai Peninsula. From slide mount: "Sept '56. Looking SE over Kachemak Bay. In flight - about to land at Homer." Sept. 1956. Photograph...

Color print of Ted Pedersen, sailing the WHITE WHALE, a New Bedford whaleboat, built in Seattle in 1980 and sailed to Bear Cove, Alaska, by Pedersen; the boat was willed to the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska.

Diary kept by Harold Pomeroy in 1949 during his preparations for and first year of homesteading at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula. 315 pages. In the diary, Harold documents lists of supplies gathered for homesteading, his drive...

Harold Pomeroy (at left, leaning over a wheelbarrow) and other members of the Pomeroy family harvesting cabbages and cauliflower from the garden at their homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, circa 1950-1956. The...

Roxalana Skobelska tends to tomato and bean plants in a greenhouse on the Pomeroy Farm, Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Large wood burning stove for heating the greenhouse is visible in the foreground. 1952. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".

Ted Pedersen poses with a chain saw Caption on verso: "This is only a temporary dwelling until I can build our future home of logs. However I learned a lot by putting this one together. Have been wearing a moustache for seven years."

The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...

The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...

The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...

The photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy with her dog, Ruslan, inside Roxy and Harold Pomeroy's home on their homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in 1959. The dog is lying on the bed, and Roxy sits next to...